Dr. Keith Miller became the second president of Greenville Technical College on July 1, 2008. He brought experienced leadership to the position, having spent 12 years as a college president in Illinois, first for Spoon River College and later for Black Hawk College.
Dr. Miller earned a degree in radiologic technology. Later, he earned a specialty degree in Radiologic Special Procedures (angiography and computer axial tomography) from the University of Virginia Medical Center, a bachelor’s degree in biology at the University of Kansas, a master’s degree in community college teaching from Pittsburg State University, and a doctorate degree in adult and continuing education from Kansas State University.
He has teaching experience in radiography at two community colleges and in Special Radiographic Procedures at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Additionally, he has taught on various facets of adult learning at Central Michigan University and Michigan State University.
He has held national and state leadership positions. From 2008 to 2009, Miller served as chairman of the board for the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), the leading advocacy organization for the nation’s almost 1,200 two-year colleges and their 13 million students. He has served on the board of directors for the American Council on Education, the higher education organization that represents presidents and chancellors of all accredited, degree-granting institutions in the United States. He served
as the President of the South Carolina Technical College System Council of College Presidents, as well as part of the education committee of the South Carolina Research Authority.
Dr. Miller is also very active in organizations that improve the community. He served as chair of the Greenville Chamber board of directors, chair of the Commerce Club board, and board member for United Way of Greenville County, Upstate Alliance South Carolina, European American Chamber of Commerce Carolinas, Habitat for Humanity CEO Build, and the Health Sciences Center – Prisma Health. In addition, he was chairman of March for Babies, 2010-2011, and chairman of the board for the Urban League of the Upstate, 2016-2017.
Dr. Miller and his wife Heidie have three children and three grandchildren.